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      He’s mostly in to Victorian era, forbidden love fiction. I hear he has an original manuscript of his own, but he’s too nervous that it’s not good enough to ever let anybody read it.

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    The only vest I am going to wear on my motorcycle is an airbag vest. Which one is better, the Dainese or Helite Turtle 2?

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      No. This is a common misconception. Vests actually evolved separately from shirts in an example of convergent evolution. Their nearest common ancestor was the jumpsuit, which also spawned the lineage of what are now pants. Interesting, a subgroup of proto-vests became isolated in the southern region, and eventually evolved into chaps.

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        I know this is a joke, but there’s no way a full body suit predates vests as a clothing item. You can make a rough vest without sewing, not the case for a whole connected outside with tubes for arms and legs.

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          The real story is that westerners were inspired by persian style waistcoats, then modified to fit more common clothing to their area, making the vest

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    Libraries are great, and skeletons reading books are fun, but biker vests are just goofy. There’s nothing “hard” about them.

    Oooooh, look at me. I mean it, please, look at me! I want your attention desperately. Look at my vest. I’m wearing leather (which is actually good protection against road rash when riding a motorcycle), but I’m leaving my arms bare, so that when inevitably I fall off my bike, my arms will get absolutely shredded by the asphalt, but my chest and back area will be less damaged. I want to wear some protective gear, but not actually effective protective gear. I’m in a club, with other boys, and I want everyone to know about my club! I’m a manly man!